Introduction Casual Language Style Meteor Newspaper Headlines

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1. Introduction

Language style written by someone is different from one to another, the writer or speaker needs to adjust to the situational context and the addressee in choosing language style, for example, writing a letter to a person who has unequal rank due to hisher status in an organization or hisher social class is considered to be less relaxed and more formal than writing a letter to person with equal rank. Language style used in writing newspa per’s headline is also different from one to another newspaper. In this essay, the writer is interested in analyzing language style Meteor newspaper headlines. It was a previous research about the language style in Meteor newspaper carried out by Lestari 2012. Her thesis is on “Gaya Bahasa dan Tema Humor yang Terdapat dalam Rubrik “Sontoloyo” Harian Meteor”. She described figurative language and humorous theme in rubric “Sontoloyo” Meteor Newspapers. Then, Emka and Rizky 2013 in their essay “Sensasionalisme Berita- berita Kriminal di Harian Memorandum, Lampu Hijau, and Pos Kota ” conclude that: Many Sensational techniques were done by yellow newspapers with consideration makes the newspaper is interesting and sold out in low-middle class. Indeed, it does not heed the general rules of journalism. There has never been research on language style “Meteor” Newspaper. In this essay, the writer is interested in analyzing language style Meteor newspaper headlines. According to Nurudin, Meteor is one kind of yellow newspaper in Semarang and the addressee in yellow newspaper are people from lower-middle class 3 or uneducated people because people from upper-class and educated ones are not interested enough 2009:230. The scope of the writer’s problem on the language style of the headlines of Meteor newspaper because she wants to know the characteristics of casual language style in writing Meteor newspaper headlines.

2. Theoretical Framework